Publisher London : Printed and sold by L. Davis, printer to the Royal Society, opposite Gray's-Inn, Holborn

Collection biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor Smithsonian Libraries

"Another edition of Directions was published in 1771, with 'The Method of Catching and Preserving Insects for Collections' replacing the paper on the Venus flytrap"--Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation preface to its PDF facsimile of Ellis's work

"A botanical description of the Dionaea muscipula, or Venus's fly-trap," with special half-title (p. [35]-41), is written in the form of a letter to 'Sir Charles Linnaeus' and dated Sept. 23, 1769

Includes an engraved frontispiece showing different kinds of casks and boxes for transporting plants, and a hand-colored plate of the "Venus's Flytrap" signed by the engraver James Roberts

Signatures: [A]p2 s(-A2) B-Fp4 s[G]p2 s(-G2)

ESTC (online)

Sabin

Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller. Catalogue of botanical books

William Reese Co.;

SCNHRB copy 39088017531633 is imperfect: the original plate of the Venus's fly-trap is wanting, and has been replaced by a later hand-colored facsimile

SCNHRB copy has the words "figure and" crossed out on the title page

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment

SCNHRB copy has a later half-leather binding with marbled paper boards, raised bands, gilt-tooled spine and red leather spine label; re-backed. Some of the text leaves (including the title leaf) have had the edges or corners repaired

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